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Marksman
maybe a marcus luttrell.
Got my vote.
maybe a marcus luttrell.
John Wayne " The Duke"
Who was toughest sumbich American to ever live?
American I think would be the key word for the thread.
Who was toughest sumbich American to ever live?
American I think would be the key word for the thread.
...THEN, after he cut off his own freakin' leg with a dull pocket knife...
Ah - so you did. But he is in my signature line. Semper Fi!
Wyman did that to save his own life. Lieutenant Bobo (and many other MOH recipients) did what he did to save his Marine's life, and gave up his own.You guys all seem to interpret "tough" as "heroic/tough" in a military sense or in a tough fighter sense. With no disrespect to the heroic individuals mentioned, none of their records even come close on the "tough" scale to really tough people.
My #1 pick is Donald Wyman. He's the bulldozer operator from Pennsylvania whose leg was crushed and trapped under a big tree. He knew he wasn't going to get help in time, so he tied a bootlace around his leg above the injury, then used his pocket knife to sever the lower part of his own leg above where it was caught under the tree. At this point, I should mention that he used his knife to clear crap from the treads of his dozer, so it was not sharp. When I saw him TV talking about it, he said he rubbed it on a rock to get it as sharp as he could.
THEN, after he cut off his own freakin' leg with a dull pocket knife, he crawled about 30 yards to another bulldozer, climbed onto it, and drove to his truck. His truck had a clutch, so he used the handle of a tool (I think it was a sledghammer or an axe) to work the pedal and drove himself to the first house he found for help.
That's a kind of tough that goes beyond . . . just about anything. There are a few others who have done similar things since, but the guy who did it first (I think) wins.
I'd also have to give a nod to anyone who survived something like the Bataan Death March, a prison camp in Vietnam or WWII Germany, etc. That's pretty damn tough.
Wyman did that to save his own life. Lieutenant Bobo (and many other MOH recipients) did what he did to save his Marine's life, and gave up his own.